Virginia Senate Candidate Ed Gillespie Steps Out

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More than a decade before he laid plans to leverage his credentials as a Republican mega-lobbyist and fixer into a Senate bid in Virginia, Ed Gillespie mapped out a very different political blueprint in nightly meetings convened over Chinese takeout in Philadelphia. It was 2000, and then, as now, the electoral stakes for Republicans were high — and the party pinned its hopes and resources on Gillespie’s success. Gillespie was part of a small team organizing the Republican National Convention…